Improvement in combined drills and seeders



l To dllwhonft concerne;` e y Be it; known `that I, JoH`N E. BUXTON, of 'Owa tonna, in the county ofSteele and State of Minnesota,

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'haveinvented an'ew and useful Improvement in OombinedDijill and `Seeder; `and `Idojhereby declare theV `ibllowing to -bea`ful 1, clear, and Aexactdescription thereof, 'which willenable othersskilled in the art 't'owhich my inventiouappertains Ito make and use -the saine,` reiereneebeing had to `the accompauyinggdiawings fformingjpart ofthis specih'ontion, in

riginal is @aannamesJongeman sananet a seeding-inachinefadj usted `for drilling grain. i

Figui-e2 is a similar viewot' the machine, adjusted for sowing broadcast. p f e 1 l `Figure 3 is a `detail planview of the adjustable i conveyersand guide, by which the machine is adapted ffor use either as a grain-drill or `broadcastV seeder.

\ Similarletters` of reference1 indicate corresponding pai'tsin the severalgnres ofthe draivings. e

My invention has gfor itsbbjeot to improve the Ineansfor 'converting alseeding-machine either into a grain-drill or broadcast seeder;

Tothis end it consists :in ,an apron` interposed be tween'thehopper and,disehargespouts, provided upon one side with conveyer-spoutsand adapted to be os# cillatedin bearings affixed to the frame of the machine in such a mannerthat when the conveyers are upperrnost the grain from t-he-` hopper shall bel guided into i the drill-'spouts, 'andwben the vplain surface'is upper-4 most the grain shall; be `directed. into `the broadcast spouts.`

`In the accompanying drawingsi r A isthe `frame of the machine, to which the cultivater-teeth, hoes, or plows are attached in theusual manner. desired. e i

B is the seed-hopper, placedtransversely upon the ltmay be mounted upon wheels or not, `as

1 frame, and provided with holes lthrough the bottom atJ e such distances apart as'itris desired to have between s'poutsfplaced transversely of the frame, beneath thehopper, ininclined 'positions alternately tothefrontand rear, and so arranged as to t register .with the holes in= the bottom of the hopper. D are the broadcast-sowing spouts, also arranged beneath the hopper transverselyv of the` frame, and inp clndto the front, asshown. e, Y e v "lliesedevices are all described in a patentfgranted to me July c, 1869, and numbered 92,262, and do not, therefore, constitute the present invention.

.E is an apron `or strip ot metal or other suitable material interposed between the bottom of the hopper andthe upper ends of the spouts 'O D, and hung in bearings alixed tothe sides ofthe frame A, as shown.

ltisprovided upon one side with a series ofoonveyerspouts, F, open at both ends, and arranged to direct n the seed fromthe hopper into the drill-sponts O.

Theapl'on is arranged to turn in its bearings, and one of`-its journals is-provided with `a downward-projecting lever, G, which, when moved to occupythe v 'position shown in fig. 1, will turn the apron to hold the conveyer-spouts F uppermost. In this position the grain falling from the hopper willbe directed into the ydrill-sponts and drilled into the ground in the usual When it becomes necessary or desirable to sow the seed broadcast the lever is Ymoved to the position shown in iig. 2, when the plain surface of the apron will be uppermost in a slightly inclined position, and

-drect the grain into the broadcast spouts D. Seat terers may be alixed to the dischargeeuds of-the Scattering-spouts or to the frame in front of their discharge ends, to scatter the grain evenly over the ground.

i r The apronE and its conveye'rs may be operated by meanspther than the lever, if 4foundl preferable.-

By'my-improvement the seed is directed into the drillfspoutsin streams, but into the broadcast spouts -in a broad sheet equal or nearly so to `the length of the apron, Aand is consequently discharged equally from all the broadcast spouts and sown evenly. upon the ground. p, t

Having thus described vmy invention,

What YI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, s-

The'oscillating apron E, provided upon one side with the conveyerlspouts F, and arranged for operation between the bottom of the hopper and the sponts C D, in such manner as to discharge the grain into the drill-sponts in Stearns `and into the broadcast sponts in a'sheet, substantially as herein shown and described, for the purpose specified.

The above specification of my invention signedv by.v4

-rne this27th day of September, 1869.

Wi'tncssesz. e J. E. BUXTON.

A. BnnNsTl-nx, WM. C, FARWELL. 

